School news
Yoh Players present Treasure Island
Please join our Yoh Theatre players in March for a performance of Robert Louis Stevensons’ Treasure Island, a play by Mary Zimmerman. Come experience action and adventure, and sea shanties woven into the story!
Friday, March 6, 7pm
Saturday, March 7, 7pm
Sunday, March 8, 2pm
Summary
Enlivened by rum, mutiny, and buried treasure, Treasure Island is the classic pirates’ tale, widely regarded as the forerunner of this genre. After discovering a treasure map, young Jim Hawkins sets off to sea as cabin boy aboard the Hispaniola, where he encounters one of the most unforgettable characters in literary history—peg-legged buccaneer Long John Silver, a malicious mutineer and charismatic father figure.
“Zimmerman has powerfully captured the joy, danger, and fantasy of Stevenson’s novel. . . Pure fun, a potent coming-of-age story, and a rollicking swashbuckler.”—San Francisco Chronicle
Pirate Attack! Left to right: Jim Hawkins (Jay Allen) fights off an attack by Israel Hands (Quinn Eckler), Sailor O'Brian (Charlie Davis) creeps up from below while Pirate George Merry (Brady Kruse-Ely) fights his opponent, Captain Smollet (Tee Miller) fights with the pirate Johnny (Moira Helene)
Pirate Job (David Solitaire) descends from above.
Fred Schlabach (Yoh Theatre's set builder) with the Treasure Island set, which includes a thrust that comes right out into the audience, and many entrances and exits with stairs and a fire pole to support the action. Next the players will paint the set, and add lighting.
WUHSMS musicians participate in Connecticut Valley Honors Music Festival
Twelve musicians from WUHSMS were accepted and participated in the Connecticut Valley Honors Music Festival last weekend. This festival brings together the very best middle and high school musicians from throughout the state for a two day festival, this year hosted at Bellows Falls Union High School. The festival includes over 10 hours of rehearsal followed by a featured performance. Lia Gugliotta performed with the high school jazz ensemble and all other musicians performed with the middle school concert band. Bravo tutti!
Pictured from left to right: Josiah DeWerth, Mina Gugliotta, Izzy Gieder, Josie Flaster, Lia Gugliotta, Ava Byrne, Genevieve Williams, Norah Wolfe, Sadie Rowlee, Mari Maxham, Malina Siciliano and Anabelle Park
Sophomore class is excited to kick off Double Good Popcorn Fundraiser!
The sophomore class is excited to kick off our Double Good Popcorn Fundraiser! This easy, online fundraiser features delicious gourmet popcorn and helps support important class activities and events. Families can place orders from anywhere, and popcorn is shipped directly to the buyer—no door-to-door sales required. Your support makes a big difference for our students, and we truly appreciate you helping the sophomore class reach their goals. For ordering information, please click this link. Thank you for supporting our students!
Change the World Kids makes a difference, one action at a time
Change the World Kid, Addy Tucker ‘27 painted plastic bag dryers to sell at the annual Wassail Craft Fair! Change the World Kids is a Woodstock based youth led non-profit committed to humanitarian and environmental change both locally and internationally.
Raffle bag artists
The Lanoza girls have been designing different themed bags for the delayed start in-service raffle bag drawing. Allison (10th grader) and Danielle a.k.a Dee (6th grader) enjoy coming up with different themes for each month and drawing, coloring and creating each bag. If you have had the pleasure of winning one, then you know how much effort has been put into them and how much joy comes from picking out the raffle winners. The staff/teachers seem to enjoy the creative bags and look forward to putting their names into the raffle drawing so hopefully they win not only the bag of goodies but also for the bag itself.